The objective of this study is to integrate the admissible factor of safety (FoS) into the mine planning. The analysis showed, as expected, that a lower net present value (NPV) is obtained with the increase in the admissible ...

The legacy of mining activities has typically been land 'returned to wildlife', or, at some sites, degraded to such an extent that it is unsuitable for any alternate use. Progress towards sustainability is made when value ...

The legacy of mining activities has typically been land 'returned to wildlife', or, at some sites, degraded to such an extent that it is unsuitable for any alternate use. Progress towards sustainability is made when value ...

The problem studied in this paper is that of designing the optimal open pit haulage ramp that, for a given ramp width and a maximum ramp gradient, connects two points of the mine, minimising construction and operational ...

The design of pushbacks is essential to long-term open pit mine scheduling because it partitions the pit space into individual units, controlling ore and waste production. In this paper, a new model is proposed for the ...

We present a model that allows us to consider mine production scheduling coupled with the mining system at different levels of detail: from the standard origin-destination approach to a network considering different ...

The costs and complexity of the mine operation increase as extraction in an open pit mine progresses, making the use of underground methods more and more appealing. A natural question is, therefore, what are the boundaries ...

This article presents predictive statistical models for fragmentation in open pit mines using drill-and-blast data. The main contribution of this work is the proposing of statistical models to determine the correlations ...

The costs and complexity of the mine operation increase as extraction in an open pit mine progresses, making the use of underground methods more and more appealing. A natural question is, therefore, what are the boundaries ...